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Release Date: Dec 27, 2002
Running Time: 149 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English
Country Of Origin: Poland
Country Of Origin: Russia
Country Of Origin: France
synopsis
An adaptation based on the autobiography of the acclaimed Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who detailed his survival during World War II, and narrowly escaped a roundup that sent his family to a death camp. A composer and pianist, Szpilman played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. There, in Poland, Szpilman struggled to stay alive--even when cast away from those he loved. He spent the duration of the war hiding in the ruins of Warsaw and scavenging for food and shelter. Szpilman eventually reclaimed his artistic gifts, and confronted his fears--with aid from the unlikeliest of sources.
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Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
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Henryk
Regina
Halina
Janina
Jurek
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reviews
Based on the real experiences of a Holocaust survivor and winner of last spring's Cannes International Film Festival top prize, The Pianist chronicles Polish-Jewish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman's miraculous survival underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Story Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a young pianist in Warsaw in 1939 when the Nazis invade. Both he and his upper-middle-class Jewish family maintain the belief that once the French and English become involved, the Germans will be defeated.… 
January 9, 2003
What strikes you first about The Pianist, aside from the fact that it is Roman Polanski's most personal and powerful film in years, is its rigorous lack of sentimentality. Polanski and screenwriter Ronald Harwood (The Dresser) never resort to phony Life Is Beautiful uplift in telling the true story of young pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jew who survived the Nazi invasion of Warsaw (where much of this film was shot) by hiding out and living like an animal. If the film lacks…
May 20, 2003
It's a sad irony that Adrien Brody is more famous for his emotional Oscar speech than for the shattering performance that earned him this year's prize for Best Actor. Brody cuts deep -- even when the script doesn't -- into the true story of a young pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who survived the Nazi invasion of Warsaw by hiding out. A bonus feature, "The Story of Survival," tells how Pianist director Roman Polanski, also an Oscar winner, himself escaped the Nazis as a child in…
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